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@@ -444,6 +444,9 @@ This behaviour is useful when you want to do your own signal handling, or want to handle signals only in specific threads and want to avoid libev unblocking the signals. +It's also required by POSIX in a threaded program, as libev calls +C<sigprocmask>, whose behaviour is officially unspecified. + This flag's behaviour will become the default in future versions of libev. =item C<EVBACKEND_SELECT> (value 1, portable select backend) @@ -2302,7 +2305,8 @@ and unblock them in an C<ev_prepare> watcher. Both the signal mask (C<sigprocmask>) and the signal disposition (C<sigaction>) are unspecified after starting a signal watcher (and after stopping it again), that is, libev might or might not block the signal, -and might or might not set or restore the installed signal handler. +and might or might not set or restore the installed signal handler (but +see C<EVFLAG_NOSIGMASK>). While this does not matter for the signal disposition (libev never sets signals to C<SIG_IGN>, so handlers will be reset to C<SIG_DFL> on |